The rate of speciation is in most mammals an order of magnitude faster than in most other vertebrates. It is faster still in the social mammals. The apparent association between c...
—The complexity of distributed computing systems and their increasing interaction with the physical world impose challenging requirements in terms of adaptation, robustness, and ...
Contemporary software systems are composed of many components, which, in general, undergo phased and incremental development. In order to facilitate the corresponding construction ...
This paper proposes an experimental evaluation of various discretization schemes in three different evolutionary systems for inductive concept learning. The various discretization...
Most studies of software evolution have been performed on systems developed within a single company using traditional management techniques. With the widespread availability of se...